![]() Q5: Do you have a favorite board game or non-newspaper puzzle? The second, featured right below, is my very own word puzzle. The first one is called “Two Not Touch” – it is a grid-based logic puzzle designed by Jim Bumgardner and has some similarities to KenKen. Who designed these puzzles and how will they add to the existing KenKen and Crossword offerings? Q4: I see that you’ve just introduced two new puzzles to the daily puzzle section on page A2. The solving process is similar in that in involves filling in squares, figuring out a strategy or hint, and finishing with a sense of completion. While people who like word and math puzzles are different types of solvers, both types like to use their minds to solve puzzles. Q3: I know your longest-running puzzle is the Crossword. With a tough KenKen, or problem of any sort, you struggle through the tough part and at the end, you rush to finish the last squares – at which point you have an endorphin rush. Q2: You helped bring KenKen, the Japanese math puzzle, into the Times about a decade ago and declare it as “the most addicting puzzle since Sudoku.” What about KenKens captivated you? By completing puzzles, you’re not just filling time, but you’re also making yourself a better person. Puzzles serve as a diversion from whatever is bothering you drugs can do that too, but puzzles are empowering and beneficial to the mind. Q1: What is it about puzzles that makes them such a valuable quarantine activity? Shortz, an avid ping-pong player and Westchester resident, also owns and operates the Westchester Table Tennis Center in Pleasantville. I recently interviewed Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times and all-around puzzle connoisseur, about his favorite puzzles in times of quarantine and normalcy alike. Puzzle master and Westchester resident Will Shortz is the The New York Times crossword puzzle editor. ![]()
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